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Jointly produced by WGBH
Boston and the BBC, the five-part TV series originally aired in
the UK as 'The Dream Machine' before its U.S. premiere in
January 1992. Andy Baio writes: "these videos are
completely out-of-print and unavailable commercially, digitized
from old VHS recordings. If they ever come back into print, or
the copyright holders contact me, I'll take them down
immediately."

Punched card tabulating equipment,
invented and developed by Herman Hollerith to process data
from the United States Census of 1890, was the first
mechanized means for compiling and analyzing statistical
information. Through continual improvements, first by
Hollerith and then by many others, punched card equipment
created and expanded the worldwide information processing
industry and continued to play a significant role in that
industry for more than two decades after the first
commercial electronic computers were installed in the early
1950s.

Some of the most difficult problems
in science and technology involve solving equations relating
to complex physical situations such as predicting the
heights of tides, designing antenna systems for radio
communication, creating a reliable electrical power grid,
and accurately predicting where an artillery shell would
fall. These problems were only capable of being solved when
mechanical analog devices were invented to aid in the
solution of differential equations. The creation of the
differential analyzer in the first half of the 20th century
was a breakthrough that allowed for advances in these and
many other areas.

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"on October 5,
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Volume 1: How Computers Changed the
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Industries

Volume 2: How Computers Changed the
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Entertainment Industries

Volume 3: How Computers Changed the
Work of American Public Sector Industries

Cortada, James W.
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Amazon:
This unique volume brings together fascinating memoirs of key
IBM engineers and managers of the past 100 years -- from Walter
Jones, who started as a sales engineer in 1912 and rose through
the ranks for three decades, to Cuthbert Hurd, James
Birkenstock, Bob Evans, John Backus, Watts Humphrey, and others
who led IBM to supremacy in digital computing and software. It
details punch card tabulation, IBM’s entrance into computing,
and the transformative IBM hardware (IBM 650, IBM 1401,
System/360) and software (FORTRAN, SABRE, IMS) that changed the
world. The IBM Century contains an IBM timeline, a
comprehensive IBM annotated bibliography, and a new introductory
essay that characterizes IBM's 100-year history and
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Minicomputers,
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Constance Penley Ground Control by Susan Buck-Morss; Julian Stallabrass;
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Journal
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innovative ideas and programs for classroom teachers, scientific
studies, and formulation of concepts related to the education,
recruitment, and retention of under-represented groups in
science and engineering"

Lerman, Nina E., Arwen Palmer Mohun; Ruth Oldenziel. "The
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Nelson, Donna. "National Analysis of Minorities in Science and
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engineering; assesses the effects of bias and prestige in
research and teaching universities.

Valian, Virginia. "Women at the top in science - and
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fields, including computer science.]

Vehvilainen, M. "Gender and Computing in Retrospect: The
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Wajcman, Judy. "Reflections on Gender and Technology Studies: In
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The history of the
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1970s from the foundation of Stanford University to the rise
of the semiconductor and microprocessor industries. In this
program, inventors of the disk drive, semiconductor and
microprocessor, the founders of Intel, Netscape, Atari,
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Stanford University and others discuss the synergy within this
unique community that made innovation the number one product.

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computers built in the United States, Germany, England, and
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